D&D 3.x [3.5] rogue: need to get my crits up, can't afford keen

[arcseed]

Now you have a wide crit range and bonus sneak attack damage equal to your character level from the Craven feat, which means it can be multiplied on a crit.

The bonus damage from craven, at least from that link, is 'extra' damage, not a bonus to the damage roll, and thus is NOT multiplied, even though it is a static bonus. AFAIK, collision is the only other source of non-die 'extra' damage; other static bonuses are explicitly added to the damage roll.

 

[Dandu]

I think the bonus damage from Craven works like bonus damage from Power Attack or Favored Enemy.

This is the answer that the "Ask a simple question, get a simple answer" thread on Gleemax gave.

First instance

Second instance

 

[Empirate]

I can't really see the difference between 'extra' damage and a 'bonus to the damage roll'.

A critical hit means that you roll your damage more than once, with all your usual bonuses, and add the rolls together. Unless otherwise specified, the threat range for a critical hit on an attack roll is 20, and the multiplier is ×2.
Exception: Extra damage dice over and above a weapon’s normal damage is not multiplied when you score a critical hit.

Craven doesn't provide damage dice. In fact, it doesn't even provide a bonus along the lines of '+1 damage per die', as is sometimes found with other effect (e.g. Searing Spell). Craven just provides flat extra damage, which I would read as multiply-able on a crit.

 

[Dandu]

Craven's bonus to damage is worded pretty much the same as the Paladin's bonus damage from Smite Evil, and I'm pretty sure that is multiplied on a crit.

 

[Herzog]

Scrolls of Keen Edge (375 gp) + UMD?
or
oil of Keen Edge (750 gp)?

 

[arcseed]

Ok. I hadn't realized that phb 140 had been errataed. And I'd recently been making a mounted charging build and ran across old/bad info.